Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [be] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another part of the proposals which worries me is the Scottish Office taking responsibility for more of the main roads . |
| 2 | Soviet strikes point to crisis of morale that threatens future of perestroika Broadcasts of parliament get more viewers than Agatha Christie films It is the first November 7 since the revolution that coal miners have been on strike . |
| 3 | But the Bordeaux that really grabs me is the oak-aged Blanc de Bordeaux ‘ 90 . |
| 4 | ‘ But the King says I am the best horseman in his army . |
| 5 | Anne Cullen has spent nearly half of her twenty two years of married life pregnant … and says she 's the happiest mum in the world . |
| 6 | The administrator , Tilahu Walle , says they are the lucky ones of the 200 000 people in the area who need assistance . |
| 7 | What motivates him is the same thing as motivates the riders . |
| 8 | ‘ Peter [ Scudamore ] says he 's the best hurdler he has ridden , ’ he added . |
| 9 | I just turned round and says mine was the cheapest price anyway ! |
| 10 | But the herd manager says it 's the better taste of Hereford beef that should ensure the survival of the county breed : |
| 11 | Jeff Jones , the developer says it 's the best site in the region . |
| 12 | Mrs Danby says it 's the best thing ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ She says it 's the only life I know , and I might want to join just because of that . |
| 14 | He says it 's the only way they can survive . |
| 15 | The company says it 's the only way to get its operation back on its feet . |
| 16 | ‘ Harold says it 's the final refinement of relaxation , ’ said Dimity , and noticed a wince of pain pass over the rector 's cherubic face . |
| 17 | Paul Groombridge says it 's the good news they 've been waiting for . |
| 18 | It says it 's the first product to fully support the Intel Express motherboard architectures with DEC 's high-performance graphics , SCSI and networking chipsets and adapters . |
| 19 | well he says it 's the national speed limit , seventy |
| 20 | ‘ He says it 's the local farmers ’ market , ’ Niall translated . |
| 21 | She says it 's the last week of term before Christmas and everyone should be happy . |
| 22 | Kerrie says it 's the last straw . |
| 23 | She says it 's the worst smell she 's ever encountered on a Ferry . |
| 24 | He says it 's the thin end of the wedge and once they ban motorised vehicles , they 'll probably then turn their attention to cyclists and horse-riders — and obviously we like using the Ridgeway . |
| 25 | MCI Communications Corp has begun service this week on the PacRim East fibre optic cable system , the first such cable to link the US and Australia : the Washington company says it is the second-largest investor in PacRim East , which is used by 34 other international carriers and stretches 4,774 miles from Hawaii to New Zealand , and on to Australia via the Tasman-2 cable . |
| 26 | Citizen , which developed it , says it is the first watch to have a built-in radio that tunes to time broadcasts linked to highly accurate atomic clocks . |
| 27 | It is also said to be the largest UK supplier of Unix and open systems training , and ICL says it is the first company to receive accreditation from Unix International Inc for its portfolio of Unix courses . |
| 28 | Internal trimming allows a claim of better than +-0.25% multiplication error with no external trim and AD says it is the first type to offer fully differential , high input-impedance working on all inputs , including the Z input . |
| 29 | Candle says it has successfully tested key DCE components within its Distributed Computing Server component in an MVS-OS/2 client-server environment and says it is the first implementation of DCE on an MVS system . |
| 30 | What does it mean when it says it is the last time . |